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Pyrolocutus posted:Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, does anyone else find the fact that the zombies are talking a little suspicious? I don't remember other mass-raised zombies in the comic talking before, and the second panel with them talking and repeating "by accident" and "find the gate" smells like Rich engaging in some foreshadowing Yeah, I'm thinking the mummies are going to have some foreshadowing abilities, or will possibly reveal the gate's secret before anyone thinks to pay attention to them. Also, seconding the idea that Sabine is manipulating Nale to think he's got it all in the bag. There's some ulterior motive in that satisfied smirk.
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Monster Manual, MOFO! posted:Mummies can speak Common, but seldom bother to do so. I think Rich is just using this, along with the X-eyes, to make it sure that you can tell the difference between the non-cloth-wrapped mummies and your garden-variety zombie. He just has them repeat what the alive characters are saying 'cause otherwise he'd have to give the mummies a joke of their own or something. I mean, zombies say "brains" every so often in the comic, what could mummies say? "MMMMMRRRHM!" is what they say in Scooby-Doo and other cartoons, but that wouldn't really fit here. They're not doing anything special, just getting a few "personality"-traits to make sure you don't mistake them for other undead. The "Hmm, don't all these undead look alike?" joke was done back in that siege with the five or so skeleton-looking monsters and skulls of fear and fire and what-not.
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Jun 21, 2012 21:42
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Do mummies still give you some rotting disease when they hit you?
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prefect posted:Do mummies still give you some rotting disease when they hit you? Yup. Good old Mummy Rot.
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greatn posted:That's not slick writing, that's lazy writing. Everytime you want to challenge your party get rid of most powerful member. Slick writing would be to just use something actually a credible threat in the first place. For me that's Rich's worst development in the series to date. Which after 856 strips is a pretty amazing accomplishment, he's a great plot weaver. I mean roughly how many spells would V have at her disposal in 3.5e, per day? 50?
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Niton posted:For a high-level 3.x Wizard, that's not really much. At the very least, it's not anything that would make the story interesting. Yeah. He's running hard up against the Linear Fighter/Quadratic Wizard problems that are inherent in the system.
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The Linear Fighters Quadratic Wizard thing wouldn't be a problem if the fighters were allowed to go all Fist of the North Star on people. 
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Speedball posted:The Linear Fighters Quadratic Wizard thing wouldn't be a problem if the fighters were allowed to go all Fist of the North Star on people. The solution is to make the fighters quadratic too. Incidentally, that rulebook gives them abilities that wouldn't be out of place in Fist of the North Star. 
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Zonekeeper posted:The solution is to make the fighters quadratic too. Incidentally, that rulebook gives them abilities that wouldn't be out of place in Fist of the North Star. Yes, but then you run into players bitching about making the game too anime, players bitching about it making fighters overpowered, players bitching that fighters shouldn't get cool super powers the way wizards and CoDzilla do, and GMs bitching about how they don't want to learn a new magic system to integrate into their campaign.  Which is a shame, because I thought the stuff in there was pretty cool. 
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Also going to say that even though Team Evil knows ABOUT the ritual, they don't know it - it's possible that they somehow got the arcane half, but Redcloak is never going to tell anyone. Not even if death threatens, since he and the Dark One really only need a goblin to put on the Crimson Mantle in order for the knowledge to be passed on.
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sebmojo posted:
Closer to 30, depending on exact level. Still enough to tend to have exactly the right thing prepared more often than not.
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Any wizard worth his salt carries a handful of scrolls for the more situational spells anyway. Stuff like Stone Shape, Water Breathing, and especially the vast majority of Divinations.
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jng2058 posted:Yup. Good old Mummy Rot. Never buy a mummy prostitute, no matter how cheap the price.
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Jun 22, 2012 20:52
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jng2058 posted:Yup. Good old Mummy Rot.
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Colon V posted:AKA: The only reason immunity to disease was ever worth a drat. Funny you should say that, because in the D&D game I'm running, one of the plot points is that diseases are starting to run rampant and get so potent that even the absurdly healthy (i.e. former adventurers) are getting sick. So of course my players all decide to play warforged and undead-to-be characters. Man I can't wait to see how they react when they find out that as the game progresses, even disease immunity won't help them!
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sebmojo posted:I mean roughly how many spells would V have at her disposal in 3.5e, per day? 50? Assuming V is somewhere around level 15 that's a base of 30 spells, but V is a specialist wizard with a high intelligence and probably still has a Ring of Wizardry, so you're probably looking at more than 50. Of course, V is primarily a blaster, and blasters aren't exactly the strongest of wizards (which is sort of like saying an aircraft carrier isn't the largest of ships), but then again, so is Xykon.
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What's funny is, at this point, you can make a pretty drat good evoker who is anything but a blaster. Later material really expanded that school's horizons.
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Cabbit posted:What's funny is, at this point, you can make a pretty drat good evoker who is anything but a blaster. Later material really expanded that school's horizons. But blasters are fun...
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:But blasters are fun... That they are! But so is using a spell like Defenstrating Sphere to launch hordes of enemies off the side of a temple.
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Jun 26, 2012 00:01
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New strip! Someone's finally decided to wake up and rejoin the story.
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Jun 26, 2012 04:44
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I laughed my rear end off at "I didn't realize this dungeon was appropriate for a pity party of 4-6 characters."
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Jun 26, 2012 04:47
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Well, there go two 5th level spell slots to a complete and utter waste. Although I guess Rich may amend Passwall to actually be able to get V out of there instead of just digging a short hole.
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NihilCredo posted:Well, there go two 5th level spell slots to a complete and utter waste. Although I guess Rich may amend Passwall to actually be able to get V out of there instead of just digging a short hole. Well, given that V is probably about 15th level, that gets V twenty feet of tunnel, which might be enough to dig through to a corridor in a lower level of the temple. If that's the case, V could very well beat everyone else to the gate, if it's actually down there.
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Jun 26, 2012 05:15
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The mummy speech pattern is already yielding dividends.
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Jun 26, 2012 05:29
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Walliard posted:The mummy speech pattern is already yielding dividends. ...yielding dividends...
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So now what, is the mummy going to follow V (even if slowly) or try to get back up? Can it communicate with Malack in any way?
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Sorry for derailing the mummy derail but just got my book and goodies! Now I regret not getting more coloring books and notepads. Does Rich plan on selling those again or were they completely a one time deal?
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spoon daddy posted:Sorry for derailing the mummy derail but just got my book and goodies! Now I regret not getting more coloring books and notepads. Does Rich plan on selling those again or were they completely a one time deal? The mummy's actually a part of the plot, so we're still on-rails at the moment. But in answer to your question...maybe? If there's more demand for them in the future, it seems he's quite capable of reprinting them. At this point I don't know what Rich COULDN'T do simply by asking the Internet nicely.
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MikeJF posted:...yielding dividends...
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NihilCredo posted:Well, there go two 5th level spell slots to a complete and utter waste. Although I guess Rich may amend Passwall to actually be able to get V out of there instead of just digging a short hole. That spell slot was already wasted when V used Quicken on Expeditious Retreat. Alternatively, it won't be wasted because she's probably going to stumble into combat or somesuch. Seriously, though, Swift Expeditious Retreat's a first level spell V. Update your list!
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Got my $67 pledge package today. These are some nice high-quality items. And that magnet is strong.
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And I just finished Start of Darkness. It's up there with Vaarsuvius' rampage on the list of Things That Are Awesome about OotS.
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ConfusedUs posted:And I just finished Start of Darkness. Xykon's speech to Redcloak at the end is amazing.
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Pope Guilty posted:Xykon's speech to Redcloak at the end is amazing. Yes it is. It also really changes how I felt about the whole bit where he kills Tsukiko. I thought it was a little out of left field before, but now? Now that poo poo is amazing.
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ConfusedUs posted:Got my $67 pledge package today. These are some nice high-quality items. Did the tracking number for your order work? I got the shipping confirmation e-mail for the same package two days ago, but the number/link just returns a "Delivery status information is not available for your item via this web site. A return receipt after mailing may be available through your local Post Office." I guess if my package is stuck in limbo I can only hope someone out there is puzzling over V's true gender and their own views while enjoying that coloring book.
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ConfusedUs posted:Yes it is. Hole poo poo, I completely missed that. I didn't make any connection at all. That's awesome now that I think about it.
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Kimitsu posted:Did the tracking number for your order work? I got the shipping confirmation e-mail for the same package two days ago, but the number/link just returns a "Delivery status information is not available for your item via this web site. A return receipt after mailing may be available through your local Post Office." It finally worked this morning. About an hour later the guy showed up at my door with the package.
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Pope Guilty posted:Hole poo poo, I completely missed that. I didn't make any connection at all. That's awesome now that I think about it.
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"It's not just about power, it's about how far you are willing to go before you feel bad" (quoting from memory). I think one could argue that Redcloak's stone-cold handling of Tsukiko showed that he's absorbed that lesson.
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